My phone went crazy today with battery drain... losing about 20% an hour while I was doing nothing with it. I finally figured out it was Google+ uploading my media to the cloud. It went through 2 gigabytes of uploaded data before I turned off Auto Backup.
The one thing I did this morning that I think might have caused this is I installed QuickPic and started using it instead of the included gallery from Samsung. Though I'm not sure why that would make G+ think every single pic/vid in every folder on my phone and the external sd card was new and start uploading them again... and even if it did, doesn't Google do some kind of CRC check to make sure the file hasn't already been uploaded because if they don't it's going to suck when I move to a new phone but copy over all my old media and G+ decides to upload a 3rd copy of all my pictures.
My questions: 1) How do I stop G+ from backing up things that have already been backed up. 2) How do I clean my G+ Photos in the cloud to get rid of all the duplicates. There are thousands of pictures uploaded so I really don't want to do it manually.
LaTropa64 said:
My questions: 1) How do I stop G+ from backing up things that have already been backed up. 2) How do I clean my G+ Photos in the cloud to get rid of all the duplicates. There are thousands of pictures uploaded so I really don't want to do it manually.
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Well, I guess to stop the G+ from backing up things stop the the backing up function by heading over to the settings>account manger>Google account and under the Google account shut the sync photos option off. This will stop the auto backup function and in order to clean the G+ photos I am afraid but you need to clean this mess manually i.e one by one ! So, this time take the help of the PC/Laptop then manually and remove then one by one at a time. Lastly "Wish you all the best in taking out with the cleaning process" :cyclops:
Thanks. I had stopped G+ from backing up for the time being but I want to turn it back on once I figure out the duplicate issue so I can continue to us it in the future. I guess I'm wondering how Google Plus decides if a pictures has already been uploaded or not?
It's going to suck manually deleting all the duplicates already on plus.google.com/photos. I have over 7,000 pictures in there and the best I can tell from my G+ app on the phone, it recently uploaded about 3,000. My google fu isn't very good though because I can find no way to sort them by date uploaded or anything. It'll be a nightmare scrolling through all of my photos looking for the duplicates.
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I am about to upgrade from HTC Hero to SGS2 and I wonder what is the best way to migrate my apps (I've got more than 100 installed)?
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I am about to upgrade from HTC Hero to SGS2 and I wonder what is the best way to migrate my apps (I've got more than 100 installed)?
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must you really bring everything across? I look on new phone as a chance to clear out the crap...
Titanium backup perhaps, if you must bring it all over...
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must you really bring everything across? I look on new phone as a chance to clear out the crap...
Titanium backup perhaps, if you must bring it all over...
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That's exactly what I did, although I had to copy all the files from my sd card onto the internal memory for TB to realise there were backups to restore.
@Pulser ... how dare you call my **** crap ;-)
My method when I want to start fresh is backup stuff like astrid to the sd and then backup the sd to save the various data. I use myappslist off the market, it will generate a list of all the apps you have which you can email to yourself. I like to put the barcodes in there so I can just go directly to the app on the market. You can also use plain text or html or a combination. On the new phone I go to the market and download barcode scanner, open up the email I sent myself and start installing the apps onto the phone. If you're like me a couple will be ones I never used but forget to unistall so I skip them. Then I open up my backed up sd and move over the data, ringtones etc. I usually hang onto the backup for a week or so until I'm sure I have all the data moved across and then I delete it and make a backup of the new setup.
I always do this when switching to a new rom or switching to a new phone. In between I use ti.
I am guessing you have a Google account to download apps from market, when you log in to the your new phone with your google account and choose to sync your phone with Google your apps should automatically transfer to your new phone.
You can view and load apps via https://market.android.com/ instead of scrolling through your phone its much easier and when you click 'Install' on the website it will send the app to your phone and install automatically. https://market.android.com/account will show you all your apps.
Thanks a lot, guys!
If you log in with your Google Account on install it will start downloading all your apps from the Market anyway. Just make sure you are on wifi when you do it!
If you want saved game states (Angry Birds), you will need to use Titanium on the old phone to backup the settings and then use it on the new one to restore. (Requires root on both).
Upgraded from a Hero myself, and all my paid-apps were there waiting there in the marketplace. It was however only the paid apps, the free apps I had to install again. I did have a minor hitch getting the phone contacts and SMS off the Hero as there wasnt a batch backup function available, but luckily there are plenty of market apps that can backup and restore your contats and SMS.
So I just installed google+ on the phone and tried sharing a specific picture from my phone....
The picture posted ended up being a freaking screen shot of an ESPN bookmark!! WTF?
Has anybody had this problem or is it just a freak accident? I am a lil scared of using it now as there are some crazy ass photos on my phone and I definitely do not want to even accidentally post them.
Maybe I can just put them in a .file but isn't that where they found the ESPN bookmark?
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PhillyCheez said:
So I just installed google+ on the phone and tried sharing a specific picture from my phone....
The picture posted ended up being a freaking screen shot of an ESPN bookmark!! WTF?
Has anybody had this problem or is it just a freak accident? I am a lil scared of using it now as there are some crazy ass photos on my phone and I definitely do not want to even accidentally post them.
Maybe I can just put them in a .file but isn't that where they found the ESPN bookmark?
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Delete your /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails folder so that it rebuilds. You should be able to verify this is the problem by opening gallery and noticing that the thumbnail of the image you *wanted* to post opens the image of what was actually sent. After you delete that folder and open gallery things should be corrected. It just sounds like the thumbnails may have gotten mixed up.
If that wasn't the problem, we'll go from there.
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Delete your /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails folder so that it rebuilds. You should be able to verify this is the problem by opening gallery and noticing that the thumbnail of the image you *wanted* to post opens the image of what was actually sent. After you delete that folder and open gallery things should be corrected. It just sounds like the thumbnails may have gotten mixed up.
If that wasn't the problem, we'll go from there.
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Ah... this may have solved the problem. Should have thought about that first. It's been awhile since i cleared the thumbnails.
K.... Another issue.
I turned on instant upload to upload all my pics to Picasa.
It ONLY found my fxcamera folder.... I have like 5 folders with pics in them. Anybody know how Google+ instant upload scans the SD card for pics?
EDIT: Solved...
Google+ instant upload looks like it scans in order of folders and uploads the first folder it finds with pics in it... (First time the first folder it found with pics was FXcamera Folder) for most people it would be DCIM. For now I moved all my pics into that folder (DCIM) but I will take them all out once it's done uploading (4G kills it!)
Then from there on it will instant upload anything that goes into DCIM...
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I have the Titanium Backup pro running on my Prime. When I try to do a dropbox sync, it fails about 1/3 way. I've re-tried a few times, with no luck. Anyone get it to work on the Prime? My theory is that since the Dropbox android client can only upload a max file size of around 170 MB, a big backup file is the root of the sync failure. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to tell on what file the dropbox sync fails.
Given my theory, I followed the Titanium Wiki and tried to use labels. I downloaded "apps organizer" and labelled a bunch of apps. When I go into Titanium and try to modify the Dropbox settings, the only option is to uncheck synch everything. I cannot figure out how to set a label for dropbox sync. Any ideas?
Finally, I wanted to submit some sort of bug report to titanium on this subject, but I have not found a link to do so. Does anyone have a link or email address to submit bugs to Titanium?
Thanks!
I had the same problem but just kept re-syncing. It picked up from where it left off the last time.
I don't know how many times you tried but it took me 5 or 6 to finally get it all.
I did try again a few times and it would get a bit further. But now its stuck on ~1.3 GB left and it seems like it doesn't even attempt to upload as the screen flickers right away and says Dropbox syn failed.
Anyone find out any news on how to tell what failed? I'm having issues uploading to both Dropbox and Box with an upload failing eventually. Happens to both my Transformer Prime and my Evo3D
Didn't work for me either. I tried both Dropbox and Box. Both were taking way too long.
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having this problem too. i rub sync with dropbox in titanium but at same point the sync stops and error appe ars. frickin annoying. i'm on shared wlan with familije amd we have crappy upload do i want to backup cca 700 mb but it never finishes the sync. i'm frustrated with this :-(
Same problem here, I just never even get an error message until I force it to stop. Otherwise it will sit there indefinitely at the same percentage.
I've deleted and changed the Dropbox folders for TiBu several times, and it gets stuck in the same place every time. Making current backups and I'll be trying to u/l to Dropbox again (this being a more fresh install), I'll likely also try it out on my phone to see how it works. I never was really interested in it until the Prime and the fact that the internal SD card just has to get formatted by manual updates and factory resets.
I had this issue before too, I found out that the problem is when one of the backup files is bigger than 180ish MB.
the solution I found was to let this file out of the TI Backup I keep on Dropbox.
You can do this by using one of the TI Backup options that let you see the size of your back ups, then just organize it by size and voila, you can easly find the culprit.
Now for the label thing, you could make a label with those files and another label for everything else and that way keep those files away from screwing with Dropbox sync.
The way to actually make these labels is using the label option WITHIN Titanium, not 3rd Apps
Where did you find this option? I cannot find the size of the backups..
I've just setup to go to google drive to see if that will work instead.
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I had this issue before too, I found out that the problem is when one of the backup files is bigger than 180ish MB.
the solution I found was to let this file out of the TI Backup I keep on Dropbox.
You can do this by using one of the TI Backup options that let you see the size of your back ups, then just organize it by size and voila, you can easly find the culprit.
Now for the label thing, you could make a label with those files and another label for everything else and that way keep those files away from screwing with Dropbox sync.
The way to actually make these labels is using the label option WITHIN Titanium, not 3rd Apps
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I have exactly the same problem so I 'solved' it with your lable idea. (I think - this is a very difficult place to mess around with!)
However, when a new app is installed it won't be in the label, right?
So, every new app will not be synchronised with Dropbox!
I wonder whose fault this is:
- Titanium cannot create/manipulate larger files synchronisation
- Dropbox refuses larger files (though it works from my PC!)
- Dropbox has only given Titanium the rights for files up to appr.180Mb
I also had problems with Titanium Backup failing to upload the backup data to the cloud with it's built in cloud backup feature. I scheduled the cloud backup to run once a day, but it fails very often. There was always another error coming up: Low battery (though battery is full charged), network error (my Wifi works flawlessly), internal errors etc. It finished successfully in only about 25 % of the cases. That is not really reliable - reliability beeing very important in respect of backups. So I found a solution, which I want to share with you: I dismissed the Titanium cloud backup schedule and set up the backup schedule with another app. The app is called "FolderSync", available in the playstore and it works superb.
Folder Sync clear winner
I have this problem about 9/10 times. Folder sync has been wonderful to use over the last week, no errors, highly recommend.
I don't like using the public clouds, simply due to privacy issues.
I am however on the road most of the time.
I have a number of hosted domains.. and the server(s) they are hosted on... (relics from a past venture).
Is it possible to Backup my SG SIII online?
I want to back up regularly, Until last week I stored all photos and extra content onto my 32gb sdcard, I've meant to set up titanium backup to use the card, but filled my card up and it never happened... anyway.. the sdcard died never to return! was only luck that had me backup my camera photos earlier..
So I would like to backup online, securly to my own domain.
Is there anything that would do that?
Thank you
edit: found FTPSyncX lite/pro which seems ok, anything else? anyone had experiance with this (gunna do a search next)
ok, I've looked, but no simple solution found just yet.
Looks like, to backup my phone (text, phonebook, calendar) I'll have to use titanium backup and then upload the file...
this doesn't necessarily have to be a manual, I think it is possible to add auto schedules to both tasks, but still looking for an all in one solution.
any idea?
Titanium provides a back up (titanium media sync).
evening all,
can someone please help, cause i am banging my head against the wall out here! got a new xz2 compact, have an old z5, before had the original z..
from memory pc companion did allll the work, messages/ photos apps and data everything this new xperia companion transfer bollocks with wifi and google drive is driving me up the wall
ive managed to load my contacts and photos and calender on the xz2/ however messages only loads up until 2016? (didnt even know i had messages from back then on there cause the phone is so slow it just crashes if i go down that far!)
but yeah i want up to date messages and other thing the main thing is my apps/ data i have a note app with so much info on it, a diary app and others with data stored on my z5, apparently this new transfer doesnt cover it.
Ive tried doing it via google drive and every time i try to backup to google drive it comes up with a pop up screen
backup and restore would like to have offline access - allow/ deny and keeps repeating... keeps popping up again and again, sd card freezes half way...
ive tried various apps on google stores but all they seem to do is transfer the app and then you install on the new phone which is pointless unless you paid for it but it has no data,
can someone please point me in the right direction
thanks